Senior reporter in the Perth bureau of The Australian

Joined October 2010
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A 62-year-old Perth woman who lost two adult children in separate tragedies has been granted permission to collect sperm from her dead husband, in a case that has raised multiple questions around the ethics of posthumous fertilisation theaustralian.com.au/busines…

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15 Sep 2023
Lambs are now selling for as little as $2 a head and abattoirs are receiving heavily pregnant ewes as looming export ban and a weak market smash the industry theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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16 Jun 2023
Football legend Barry Cable abused girl, court finds theaustralian.com.au/sport/f…

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12 May 2023
It’s been a big news week but this undoubtedly the best story of all: a Cottesloe tennis player was hit in the face mid-match by a fish that dropped out of the sky. Judy then took the fish home and ate it. Story from The Post
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Today @PDGarvey writes on the crisis in Western Australia’s juvenile detention centre, obtains internal emails showing psychological appointments for suicidal boy and other very unwell kids repeatedly cancelled @australian theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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20 Apr 2023
Here’s an interesting glimpse of how a partial eclipse impacts on solar generation on an otherwise cloudless Perth autumn day. This is our home system #SolarEclipse2023
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28 Oct 2022
Police tasered an Aboriginal girl with cerebral palsy and an intellectual disability until she lost consciousness, then handcuffed and shackled her after she ­refused to be interviewed alone over allegations she had been abused. @australian theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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#EXCLUSIVE from @kloussikian James Madden @australian - Packer emails: “I paid Costello $300k to be my secret lobbyist” theaustralian.com.au/busines…

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This does not look like the legal system functioning optimally: A jobless Perth woman has racked up legal debts of $3.5m during a still unresolved 16-year Family Court proceeding. The proceedings have now lasted longer than the average Aust marriage theaustralian.com.au/busines…

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My favourite @davidmundy16 moment: being directly behind him for that after the siren goal against Richmond #foreverfreo
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21 May 2022
Labor supporters in the battleground seat of Pearce go berserk as the election is called in Labor’s favour #auspol
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10 May 2022
Our comprehensive poll looks grim for Josh Frydenberg, but Celia Hammond looks set to comfortably hold off a high-profile challenge from teal independent Kate Chaney in the seat of Curtin. Chaney is trailing both Labor and the Greens on this polling theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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20 Mar 2022
I'm both glad and baffled to see one of WA's greatest animals recognised on the national political stage. New SA premier says he won't be the "PM's quokka" - whatever that means. theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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20 Mar 2022
But will he be the PM's chuditch?
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On a morning when so many have woken up speechless, Gideon Haigh has written the definitive Shane Warne tribute theaustralian.com.au/sport/c…

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March 3, 2022. Just @MarkMcGowanMP getting skewered by a mattress company in the national broadsheet 🤙🏼 (And yes, I took the bait - well played, advertising execs)
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I can barely believe this ending to what was already a very sad story . On opposite sides of the continent, separated lovers Carol and Terry have died within a day of each other ⁦@PDGarvey⁩ ⁦@australiantheaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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Exclusive: The ice pipe video that multi-millionaire entrepreneur Geoff Bainbridge claims was taken six years ago as part of a sophisticated extortion racket was actually filmed in the bedroom of his Melbourne home in the past 18 months. theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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16 Feb 2022
The name's McGowan. Mark McGowan. Clive Palmer has told how he feared the WA premier had given himself a "licence to kill" when his govt drafted legislation to end Palmer's $30bn legal claim against the state theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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If this had been done to an adult asylum seeker at Christmas Island, Serco would have been breached into the next century. The fine would have been huge. There’s no private contractor to blame for this. It’s a state government run facility theaustralian.com.au/nation/…

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